10 February 2016

My Favorite Things – Die-namics storage

This week, the My Favorite Things Design Team is sharing many storage
and organization ideas! How fun! Today is all about Die-namics storage and here
is how I store my dies!

I store my dies
on magnet cards. First, I
ordered magnet cards from Internet but the sizes of these magnet cards didn’t
fit my needs. So my life partner was so kind to make magnet cards for me! Yay! I’m
so thankful because this helps me to find my dies quickly (I have so many dies…
you can’t imagine LOL) and what a wonderful way to store the dies.

He made two plate
sizes (A4 and A5). At the backside, he used cardboard. For the bigger plates,
he chose 2 mm (5/64 Inches) thick cardboard and for the smaller plates 1 mm (3/64
Inches) cardboard (2 mm
was too thick for the A5 plates).

These are the A4
plates (11.7" x 8.3"). I use them to store all STAX and nested shapes
but also tags (from Blueprints Tag Builders for example) and other standard
shapes. I sort them by shape (all squares, rectangles, circles, stars, hearts,
tags etc. together). I often have more than one plate of the same type so I
store them one behind the other.

These are the
smaller A5 plates (5.8" x 8.3"). I store all other dies on them: Blueprints,
coordinating dies, cover-ups, alphas, etc. I keep the themed dies together. For
example, all word dies, clouds, borders are together on the same plate (or on
several plates one behind the other if there are many dies form the same type).
These A5 plates are perfect to stick two cover-up Die-namics side-by-side!

Here is another
example of an A5 magnet card with Blueprints. On the backside, I always write the name
of the Die-namics set (and how many dies are on the plate) and I fix an envelope OR a clear pocket with Scor-Tape. These pockets are perfect to
store the die-cuts I didn’t use.

My MFT dies are
on top of each RÅSKOG so I can easily flip through my MFT die collection.

I also have an
inventory of all my craft stuff on my computer. Of course, not only MFT stuff,
but from everything: stamps, dies, paper, inks, tools, etc.

So for example, each
time I get new MFT stuff, I upload an image on my computer. I save these images
in a MFT file with the name of the set. Sometimes, I add keywords (Halloween,
birthday, text, clouds, tree, scene, die). It makes searching for something in particular
easier. Here (check the screen shot), I was searching for "STAX" and in
this way, I could see all STAX dies I have on my screen in a few seconds. Of
course, I do the same with my stamps, inks and cardstock. Another example: I have many dies and stamps (from MFT and other companies) that I use to create scenes. If I want to use a tree on my card, I can enter two keywords on my compuer "tree" and "scene" and in a few seconds, I can see all tree dies or stamps that I have and that would be great for scenes. The keywords are very important for me!

By chance, I started this inventory years ago. So it takes only a few minutes to uplaod the images each time I get something. :-)

Be sure to check
out the MFT blog to see how the rest of the team
organizes their Die-namics!

7 comments:

Your magnet plates sound fabulous! Maybe your life partner could start selling them... ;)And to have all your supplies on the computer must make it a lot easier to find the perfect item for a project! Your system is very impressive!

This is awesome with the magnet sheets. Where do you buy the big magnet sheets? I can't see a link in your blog post for this.It would be absolutely perfect if it turns out you have purchased the magnet sheets in Europe as I live in Denmark. Thanks for the great storage tips!

This is wonderful Francine! I'd be curious where you found the big magnetic sheets too. I do something similar with my organization on the computer and I can't tell you how many times I've used it! Adding the keywords sounds like something I will have to do next. ;)